On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Jason Winningham wrote: > I'm certainly no expert, but I think in the contrib directory there > are some tools to build shapefiles for you. shapefile is a binary > format, so it would be something like "use perl to feed the shapefile > builder executable" instead of using perl to build the file > directly. At least, that's what seems easiest to me.
There's also a Python script, reworked by Tom a bit, which creates Xastir-usable polygon shapefiles from Tiger/Line data: "xastir/scripts/Xastir_tigerpoly.py" The original script came from the GDAL/OGR project. "ogr2ogr" should be able to do more normal conversions for you between vector formats supported by OGR. It comes with GDAL/OGR. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U "The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
